Re: apache non-free?
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:41:02PM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:27:35AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:37:14AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > IANAL, so could you give me a link to somewhere where a lawyer says that
> > > with this interpretation there is no legal risk for us in any country?
> >
> > Now that *is* ridiculous.
> >
> > We are in no legal risk in any country because, quite clearly, the
> > Apache Group are the only people who could file a suit, and they're
> > patently not going to.
>
> Now, they may be the only people who could file a civil suit, but any
> state/country in the world could call it a criminal offence. If some country
> wants to make a test case of whatever laws they've passed, what the Apache
> group think is somewhat irrelevent.
Well, true enough. But any country could arbitrarily declare anything
illegal and hence get us into trouble. It's probably not worth losing
sleep over until it happens.
Jules
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